American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy /

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"Although Herman Melville is typically considered one of America's earliest cosmopolitan writers, scholarship has focused primarily on his involvement with the South Seas, England, and the Holy Land. In American Risorgimento: Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy, Dennis Berth...

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Main Author: Berthold, Dennis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Melville, Herman.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nationale Einheit
Kulturelle Entwicklung
Rezeption
Risorgimento
Civilization > Italian influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
United States.
Italy.
Italie > Histoire > 1815-1870.
United States > Civilization > Italian influences.
Italy > History > 1815-1870.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision
  • Mardi's Dantean intertext
  • Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic
  • Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man
  • The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces
  • "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.

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